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I run 3 tanks, plus my quarantine tank. A 20 long, 55, and 90. Of my 200 or so fish, only two have names, and they're both common plecos. The Thing that Lurks (and yearns for brains) is so named because he survived a serious bout of fin-rot. I first spotted him when he was half rotted away, and immediately started treating. He's made a full recovery, and is happily hiding in the vegetation of my 90 gallon tank.

The Beast was originally the algae eater for my 20 gallon tank. After my 55 had its PH crash/SO2 incident, he moved over to my 55. Currently the Beast is about the same size as all the rest of the fish in the tank combined (It is a tetra/white cloud/threadfin tank) thus earning him the name Beast.

Which of your fish have names? Why?

I have (nick-)names for some of my fishes - my three are called "Big Spot", "Little spot" and "Stripey" - Big spot is obviously the larger of the three, Little spot is the spotted one of the two I recently added, and Stripey is the other in that new addition.

I also have names for some others:
Gus - my first bristlenose
Warren, who is Gus's "husband".
Burt - my large P. pardalis.

I also used the name "Algot" for my (or similar) - it's a pun-name in Swedish, meaning roughly "Algae is tasty".

In general, I don't name my fish.

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Mats

what a pretty BN!

My pardalis I named Rex cause he seems so prehistoric.

My first two adult male and female BN's I named Bruce and Linda (after Bruce Lee and his wife) and the very first baby BN I found I named Lachlan.

All my bettas and synos are named for characters that Russell Crowe has played in his movies.

I have lots of fish left that need names tho.

andywoolloo wrote: All my bettas and synos are named for characters that Russell Crowe has played in his movies.

Whoa - that seems a bit freaky!

i hardly ever name my fish, although my girlfriend names most of the fish in the tanganyikan display

Phyllonemus is called "Earl" - after Earl in "My name is Earl" - his spatula barbels are like his handlebar moustache.
Lophiobagrus are big crabman & little crabman as they hang around with Earl.
The Lucipinnis are the littlest ones and so are called the "ickle ones"
The list goes on...........

Whoa - that seems a bit freaky!

Well, I am a girl and he is IMHO very handsome and a wonderful actor. Plus there are so many names to choose from!

Earl sounds cute with his moustache!

Are any called Maximus Decimus Meridius?

Max aka Maximus is one of my first two syno euptera.

I named two of my fish!

My big P. pardalis is called El Monstro for obvious reasons

and my L260 is called Flirt, cos he winks at me all the time

My hybrid syno is Frank E Stein,
P.maccus is ever changing, nothing sticks. PMac right now - trying to teach hubby what is what.
Hillstream loach is Sticky.
Otos are flip,flop and fly but I never really know which one I'm looking at.
Only one danio is named, he's Dan, the one with the big flowing gown, Liberace didn't stick either - too long.
Amano shrimps are Squiggys and ghost shrimps are Lennys.

Well, I am a girl and he is IMHO very handsome and a wonderful actor

Only three of my fish have names. My two Synodontis acanthomias are named C Sharp Major and F Sharp Major, and the sailfin pleco in our tank at work is named Godzilla. It wasn't me who named it, but it did seem appropriate and now everybody calls it that.

MatsP wrote: In general, I don't name my fish

You mean you haven't named each of your Ancistrus cf. cirrhosis?

Chrysichthys wrote:

MatsP wrote: In general, I don't name my fish

You mean you haven't named each of your Ancistrus cf. cirrhosis?

No, only the first two that I got... ;) I've since had a a few hundred surviving off-spring from those two.

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Mats

I named my Acanthicus hystrix Blackie (after Lawless).
Didn't help much, though - it was killed by a bunch of wasp-like Leporinus tetras...

I named my Acanthicus hystrix Blackie (after Lawless).

OMG, my teenage years are flooding back! Did Blackie eat raw meat?

Only my two largest, the first one is "Brutus" my 13" c. fowleri who rules my 135G... The other is "Godzilla", my c. apurensus, 17" and still growing, kept alone..

In one tank I have a group of seven Corys who go by the names:
Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble & Grubb.
The largest one is Captain Flack.

It makes me chuckle to call the roll at feeding times.

Martin

( If those names mean anything to you, you are probably british and of a certain age. Otherwise, you need to watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P5wcCuNZbY )

I've got a syno. Angelica called Gabriel, a large yet to be identified plec called Leviathan and an axolotl called cthulu.....

great names, especially the Axolotl

I have a tank with 5 of these Aztec watermonsters in them and they do look like something from the Dungeon Dimensions

they do look like something from the Dungeon Dimensions

Let's see, let's see!!

Thing that Lurks (and yearns for brains)

This:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUSOPgFvRd8
Was The Grokefish

Matt

What a stunning beastie! Funny he looks like he was soft, not chubby-soft but like velvet soft. Svelt. How big was he in the video?

This is Felix,my previous RTC.Had to gave him away to a Fish club after it grown too big for the tank and it's tank mates.A big eater too.


Jabba, my marbled sand goby-still with me

L number Banana wrote:What a stunning beastie! Funny he looks like he was soft, not chubby-soft but like velvet soft. Svelt. How big was he in the video?

About 10". He died I'm afraid due to my own stupidity

I had him/her from very small and was really upset like if your dog died.

It was very sad.

Matt

I lost my first fish this year and yeah, you're right, it's a heartbreaker

Would have been much worse if I'd had him for a while but I was not paying enough attention when I bought him and he came with a scraped tail that got infected. Couldn't save him no matter what I tried. It sucked.
Here's what Mr.Whippy looked like:

My First Fish a Pictus is Hermes
a Cory named Romulus
Black Molly named Hades
Mickey Mouse Platy named Morpheus
Blue Guppy named Vesper

Past Fish~
Spotted Molly namd Nyx
Orange Molly named Aphrodite
a Cory named Remus
a Sail named Hephaestus

I have liked naming my fish after Greek/Roman Mythological Charater. In fact my Build-A-Bear is named Atles (spelled is worry n his Birth Cretfic and liked it.)

Blue Guppy named Vesper

Especially poetic! Hades is a good one too

In fact my Build-A-Bear is named Atles

Build-A-Bear?